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I haven't seen them all in person, but I think the head for the Jedi Luke that came in the FAO set and packaged with the bone is perfect for Hamill circa ROJ. Less perfect is the 100th Luke, but it's still my favorite farmboy Luke.

I have seen all the Lukes your talking about and I definately agree that they have never really nailed his likeness. Still I thing every 12" with exception to Han Endor, Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu (2000 Ep I version) and Count Dooku has been unable to match the head likeness of a human 12" Character.

Yes, Hasbro has been very lax in making a decent 12-inch version of Luke, despite over a dozen different figures of him! Yet, look at the recent figures of Padme, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and various others where they had the advantage of RealScan technology and still couldn't come up with decent head sculpts! So, I'm really not all that surprised at their inability to make a decent 12" Luke. When I see a decent sixth-scale Padme, then I might have just a bit of hope for a Luke figure.

Yeah, that's true about Hasbro rarely nailing the human character likenesses. It's just that they've tried so many times with Luke. I do like the ROTJ Jedi Luke head sculpt as well. I guess I'm still waiting for the definitive Luke from ANH, when we were first introduced to the character and Star Wars, in general.

It's too bad that Hasbro can't hire some of the Sideshow head sculptors on a freelance basis. I've always felt like Hasbro's costumes on their 12-inchers were top-notch. However, since the head sculpt on a figure seems to be at least 85% of "pulling off" the character, Hasbro just seems to be lacking more often than not. It seemed like things were turning around with great head sculpts like Jango and Dooku, but then we get the other end of the spectrum with the most recent Han Solo sculpt. I don't understand why they released that figure with that headsculpt when they have other Solo sculpts that are much closer...although none come very close, in my opinion. Perhaps we will get great sculpts on the figures where Realscan is possible and horrible ones on the figures that it isn't (ie. circa 1977 Harrison Ford).

Without a doubt the Luke jedi from the Fao 2 pack! That is near perfect likeness.
Every now and then Hasbro gets a good sculpt like that, but then, for some reason, do away with it and make a new and worse sculpt for the next figure.